China sees spike in rabies cases

August 20th, 2008 | Category: Health News

A new Chinese study has reported a dramatic spike in rabies infections. The research, published recently in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, shows that in some provinces of China the number of human rabies cases has jumped dramatically since the new millennium. Jia-Hai Lu, from the School of Public Health at Sun Yat-Sen University, China, led a team of scientists who studied the rabies trend in China amoung 1990 and 2007. Lu describes how things have changed in the last eight years “In China, human rabies was largely under control during the years 1990-1996, via nation-wide rabies vaccination programmes. Since the end of the century, however, cases of human rabies have jumped high abundant to trigger a warning sign for control and prevention”……..

Original post by Heather Craven

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